Tithing Money or Food?

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Have You Taken The Tithe Test?

Before embarking on my journey to learn more about tithing and whether it was food or money, I wrote 117-page power point study. In this blog, I will share information from that study and all the books I read while doing my research. It is said that different kinds of truth can influence what people believe. The belief that tithing is or is not required in the New Testament is based upon the type of truth a person embraces. Author, James Defazio defines different kinds of truth as empirical or perceptual, which is based on the five senses as one directly observes. The truth that tithing is money is not based on logic or theory but is based on the five senses. We see people tithe, we smell money, we observe acts of tithing money and think money is a tithe when it is not. Both empirical and perceptual truth has a flaw in that it is based upon people’s perceptions of what they observe as it is filtered through life experiences. Observing people who tithe is an experience, but it does not mean it’s a foregone Biblical truth. So over time as we hear constant incorrect tithing sermons and see the word tithe without it ever being defined correctly, our perception gets distorted by the assault of both misinformation and disinformation about tithing.

Another truth associated with tithing is rationalism. Our five senses are not involved, but tithing is accepted as truth through reason of the mind and logically deduced as fact. The truth about tithing is established more on the basis of consistency of the idea of tithing than on observation. Because everybody says tithing is required and people consistently practice the doctrine is the basis for assuming its validity. Rational tithing arguments assumes the premise is correct, but that is an inherent weakness rational justification for tithing. One of the strongest truth serums is the pragmatic truth. Here the argument goes, if it works, it must be ok and we should do it. Tithing works so it must be true because I’m blessed by tithing. So pragmatic tithers based their truth, beliefs and theories about tithing on the success of their beliefs or theories about paying a tenth. I was a pragmatic tither for many years, but none of my beliefs that tithing is required panned out. To discover the truth about tithing, I had to follow the scriptural examples for discovering the truth about tithing. Here they are:

Know the truth. John 8:31-32

Search for the truth. Proverbs 2:1-5

Desire inner truth. Psalm 51:6

Meditate on the truth. Philippians 4:8-9

Obey the truth. John 14:23-24

Handle and speak the truth. 2 Tim 2:15

Love the truth. Proverbs 4:8-9

Below is a tithing test. If you can’t answer the questions with scripture, then you are not a free will giver but a law giver.

Take The Tithing Test

Not Getting 100 Means You Are Not Free

1.The Lord Yeshua would have tithed (true or false)?

2. Peter, a fisherman, would have tithed the fish he caught (true or false)?

3. Everyone in the OT seeking to obey the law would have tithed (true or false).

4. Abraham tithed to Melchizedek, in the same way, the NT believers do to Jesus Christ (true or false)?

5. Yeshua taught his disciples to tithe (true or false)?

6. The are many examples of people tithing of their incomes in the Bible (true or false)?

7. The NT teaches that we should tithe to ministers, in the same way, the Jews tithed to priests (True or false)?

8. The Bible teaches that God’s standard of giving is ten percent?

9. The righteous poor tithed in the OT (true or false)?

10. Since everyone is held to the same standard, tithing is fair to everyone (true or false)?

Bonus Question: The Bible teaches that everyone should give ten percent of their ongoing income (true or false)?

Each one of these questions is false because there are no scriptures to answer any of the questions as true. If you read my upcoming book, KLEPTOMANIAC: Who’s Really Robbing God, the answers to these questions will be clear and found to be false. Thanks to the author James Defazio for his book, The Tithe, which served as the source for some of the information in this post. Check out another online tithe test Search the scriptures daily for all truth.

Books By Author Frank Chase Jr

Books

KLEPTOMANIAC: Who’s Really Robbing God Anyway?

Interested in purchasing a copy of the book KLEPTOMANIAC. This book is a journey into the annuals of biblical history concerning what the Bible teaches about tithing and giving. This book will take you on a proverbial archeological quest to uncover the true meaning of biblical words that deal with money. When confusion exists about what certain words mean in the Bible, such as tithe, tithing, tenth or ten percent, this book will examine the Hebrew and Greek language to bring to life what these words actually mean in context. This book will upend the common beliefs held by believers concerning giving and tithing based on the history of the original people of the Bible and how they related to money. From the very beginning to the end of the book, everything is supported by Scripture and research. You will know from the onset why the author, Dr. Frank Chase Jr., wrote the book and learn about his personal story of what happened as a result of embracing New Covenant giving principles from the New Testament. No book asks questions like this book. And some of those questions are: does the Bible talk about tithing? Did God change the tithe at some point in biblical history? Are first fruits money? Is the tithe food or money? Is the church the storehouse? Did Jesus, Paul and the Disciples tithe? Did the early church honor a money tithe system? Are Christians really cursed for not tithing ten percent of their income? These questions will be answered based on scholarship, the land, the language and the literature of the original Biblical people. Not only does the book cover the Old Testament tithe, but it will travel through time to unveil what the New Testament teaches about giving and tithing by analyzing some of the epistles of Apostle Paul concerning his views and the instructions he gave on charitable giving. This book defines biblical terms using the Hebrew and Greek text to bring clarity and understanding of the scripture in context. KLEPTOMANIAC defines the actual orthodox biblical tithe.

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